BACKGROUND

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is one of the highest ranked scientific research organisations in the world. The Headquarters Laboratory is located in Heidelberg (Germany) and the outstations are in Grenoble (France), Hamburg (Germany), Hinxton (UK) and Monterotondo (Italy).

The Headquarters in Heidelberg host four research units: Cell Biology and Biophysics, Developmental Biology, Genome Biology, Structural and Computational Biology. Bioinformatics activities are integral to the interdisciplinary research activities at EMBL and thus we seek to recruit an outstanding group or team leader, working in the broad area of computational biology and bioinformatics, who would utilize the highly interdisciplinary and collaborative environment at EMBL Heidelberg.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Our search for candidates is deliberately broad and comprises all areas of computational biology that are complementary and synergistic to existing research activities at EMBL Heidelberg. Possible research areas comprise but are not limited to structural bioinformatics (e.g. modeling of protein complexes and their interactions and/or dynamics in a cellular context), image analysis/visualization (e.g. reading out data from GFP screens, E-tomograms or visualizing a virtual cell atlas), cheminformatics (e.g. chemical-protein-network analysis), systems bioinformatics (e.g. tissue modeling, analysis network perturbations) or transcriptional regulation/epigenetics (e.g. chromatin modification analysis).

REQUIREMENTS

We are open to applications from candidates who wish to focus entirely on their own research projects and, because there is an increasing need to integrate and streamline the multiple computational approaches followed within EMBL, to candidates who wish to function at the interface between research and service activities.

The successful candidate should demonstrate a strong motivation to work in the multidisciplinary and collaborative environment of EMBL, reaching out to the many other computational and experimental groups.